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absolutedestiny has announced vidbigbang, a fest for large vid projects, along the lines of fic big bangs.

This is clearly part of our group process of trying to emotionally process the end of vividcon.


Regardless, I'm totally game for it. There's two basic approaches to the Big Bang. There's the sort of person saying "There's this seven minute long song I've long wanted to vid, I'm going to try to tackle it." And there's the sort of person saying "I wanna make/collaborate on a vid album."

I have already vidded a couple of six minute long songs. So I am in the second camp. I've had a long love affair with Bach's Goldberg Variations and I am attempting to vid the whole set. Depending on tempo, a performance of the Goldberg Variations is anywhere from 40 minutes to 1:10... I am for formal reasons intending to use a different performer's version for each of the variations, so I don't have a great sense for how long the work will end up, within that range.

This is a massive amount of vidding and I feel unlikely to succeed. The total amount of vid I have made to this point is not much more than an hour and a half. But I'm excited to try. I've made a first draft of the opening Aria vid over the past several days... the first two minutes of my project. Sometimes I vid really fast.

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It's been a week of free dinners. :P

We had a party at my parents' house on Sunday for my niece, who at two months was judged old enough to be shown off to the extended family. The guest of honor was alternately cranky and asleep, but it was a good time. It was nice to see family for positive reasons instead of for a funeral. My mother over-ordered food, so I took home enough leftovers for lunch and dinner through Wednesday.

Wednesday I helped a couple friends unmove. They'd moved to a new apartment a couple blocks from their old one, only to realize that the promised two-bedroom was actually a three-bedroom with an unadvertised, unwanted mystery roommate who needed to be given access to their kitchen and common areas. So I helped them move their furniture back to the old apartment until they can find a new place and they bought dinner in thanks.

Thursday my dad and I got dinner at the deli because my mother's down in Florida and my father... is capable of cooking for himself, but is disinclined to it, particularly after a long day of work and an hour and a half commute. And I wasn't going to turn down a free pastrami sandwich.


I have exactly zero Shabbos plans and I am looking forward to cooking for myself and enjoying a relaxing Shabbos of sleeping and reading. I'm in the middle of a nonfiction book on the 1917 Flu, and have Annalee Newitz's Autonomous on deck, which I've heard great things about.